(Jim Pickel and Paul McWilliams) In Db2 12, APAR PH08482 simplifies the process of activating new function levels without impacting existing JDBC, CLI, and .net applications, and it possibly reduces the coordination effort required between Db2 administrators and application programmers, for activati

(Martin) 97% of our studio audience learned something!Jeff gave a summary of some of the latest news and deliveries from Db2 for z/OS development.

(Sridhar Pratik Shanmugam) Db2 for z/OS is constantly providing information on the usage of our objects from the real-time statistics data and for the last few years DBAs have leveraged that information in all sort of ways through in-house applications and full products.

(Ember Crooks) I learn something new every day. The times I’m most surprised about what I learn is when it happens to be something pretty fundamental about how Db2 uses resources.

(Tammie Dang, Euna Park, and Jennie Chang) Db2 12 for z/OS introduced the capability to specify resource limits for static SQL statements, and APAR PH07658 recently introduced the following resource limit facility (RLF) usability enhancements in Db2 12:

(Henrik Loeser) If you want to build a chatbot that gets its content from a database, there is a good news. The existing tutorial “Build a database-driven Slackbot” was just updated to adapt to latest features of IBM Watson Assistant.

(Stephanie Freyer) As companies look to fully embrace agility as a way of working and doing business, integrated planning is emerging as an ideal way forward.

(Javier Estrada Benavides) Whether you’re a seasoned Db2 professional or you’re just beginning, keeping up with Db2 metrics is no trivial task, and you will have to become familiar with lots of metrics, parameter names and meaningful numbers if you want to be successful and have a deep understanding

(Ahmed Azraq, Wlodek Dymaczewski, Fernando Ewald, Luca Floris, Rahul Gupta, Vasfi Gucer, Anil Patil, Sanjay Singh, Sundaragopal Venkatraman, Dominique Vernier and Zhi Min Wen) IBM Cloud Private is an application platform for developing and managing containerized applications across hybrid cloud envi

(Craig S. Mullins) Testing application programs is a discipline unto itself and there are many considerations and nuances to be mastered to be able to test software appropriately.